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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids ride metro. This actually does NOT make me feel better. The lawlessness in the system was directly fomented by the DC Council. It was silly when a teen was arrested for eating french fries but now we are at crack smoking on the red line during rush hour, many violent crimes and this

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It wasn't silly when you got tickets for eating french fries..it kept metro clean. There was a reason for it. I grew up with that and it worked..metro has spiraled.[/quote]

But she didn't get a ticket, she was arrested and put in handcuffs and that now seems quite silly in light of shootings in the system, stabbings, violence at major hubs during commuting hours no less, drug use on the trains (even heading to Bethesda, hard drugs smoked too) and the presence of many deadly weapons in the system. Maybe a broken windows approach used to keep a lid on the mayhem.

Again, the serious problems in the metro began with the actions of the DC Council who not only decriminalized fare evasion (despite kids getting free transit cards and cards being made available to the poor) but made even that not enforceable by not requiring ID and a name to be provided.

Now, DC Council members are finishing out the year by bestowing the honor of a seat on the Sentencing Commission on one of the most depraved of murderers.

We are FAR past having the luxury to worry about french fries, look at the weapons seized by metro police. Not only are DCMPD short staffed but they are pulled to work even more OT moonlighting in metro stations to supplement WMATA police and in grocery stores.

Not only are the trends not reversing, the brazenness and contempt of the Council's action toward victims and their loved ones, and the attempts to hide it, speak volumes. [/quote]

I actually think it's indicative of the fact that a few anomalies/overreaches -as occasionally happen and obviously are well publicized and redressed--led to the overthrow of a lot of common sense rules, like not eating in metro or asking folks to pay fares. And now we have anarchy. I would personally prefer laws that most reasonable people can follow with the occasional law enforcement overreach and subsequent redress per case, than getting rid of all rules entirely for 'equity'. But here we are. And FWIW, I remember when Fawn Hall was cited in metro  for eating a banana in metro and it made headlines, but not because people thought the rule was unfair--only because she was mixed up in Iran/Contra:https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-10-21-mn-10146-story.html[/quote]

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